When
winter is coming it is good to accordingly prepare for that time.
Apart from supplies of food and liquors you have to defend yourself
against an enemy – deadly cold. Night Watch knows the best how
important is solid mantle.

Plot
is very simple – bunch of Vikings crushed into the unknown coast.
They fought with a squad of soldiers, which, accidentally, were
taking a princess to a wedding. The joy of the Vikings comes to an
end when it turns out that a father – the king – don't want pay a
ransom for her.

Generally
speaking everything is turning around killing, escaping and hunting.
This is an adventure movie so there is a lot of adventures – shame
that all are the same.

Characters
are not too complicated. We have a Vikings - they are bad (because
they're killing people and they wanted to sell a girl), but also
good, because movie is about them. We have a king, but we don't
really know how is he like, apart from that that he's definitely not
going to get a nomination for a father of the year. There is a
christian monk, who comes from nowhere and goes nowhere, but he's
awesome, so he helps the Vikings. There are soldiers, awful and bad,
with faces fearsome like Uruk-hai from „The Lord of the Rings”.
And for the dessert there is a princess with stockholm syndrome.

The
movie definitely is entertaining, certainly not historic. There is a
lot of more or less strange effects in it. Characters are dying
because of one strike of a sword, but they're still alive when they
fall from a high cliff. The mud is thick when they're fighting in it,
but it magically becomes just a dirty water when the main character
is drowning.

I
recommend it for people who are bored, but it is not a good idea to
spend a money to see it in a cinema.

Today's
inspiration is garment from early medieval trade city of Vikings,
Scandynavian apron dress – smokkr. Evidences to
reconstruction was based on excavated graves from Birka, and on
Valkyria figures from Sweden

One
of the most important excavating places is Birka. The main elements
discovered in graves were a top parts of apron dress and especially a
loops used to fasten turtles brooches. Apron dresses were made from
wool and linen. The decorative elements were made from silk.

Figures
are very helpful to reconstruct look of this garment – they are
helping to define length, width and volume.

In
my interpretation this scandinavian dress consist of back part,
matched to trunk, wider below and a front panel in a shape of
rectangle, decorated by ribbon (which is slightly wrinkling front)
and silky band. Apron has loops on suspenders. It helps to wear
brooches without spoiling a fabric.